Quotes About Curiosity

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.

I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

Beijing is a place where you can go and try on all kinds of hats. It's also a place where you can hide really easily.

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I just try to stuff my brain with everything that I can read on what is going on in science at a very high level, and sometimes I see connections of what might need to be done.

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.

As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.

What's a duck?" Luke asked curiously.

You had better not open that door.

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

every question is a door-handle.

A shudder ran through her from head to foot when she found that the thread was actually taking her into the hole out of which the stream ran.

for childhood is the deepest heart of humanity-its divine heart;

He heard me through in silence, for it was a rule with him never to interrupt a narrator. He used to say, You will generally get at more, and in a better fashion, if you let any narrative take its own devious course, without the interruption of requested explanations. By the time it is over, you will find the questions you wanted to ask mostly vanished.

it is no use trying to account for things in Fairy Land; and one who travels there soon learns to forget the very idea of doing so, and takes everything as it comes; like a child, who, being in a chronic condition of wonder, is surprised at nothing.

I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.

And it's a wonderful thing to be a boy, to go roaming where grown-ups can't catch you, and to chase rats and kill birds and shy stones and cheek carters and shout dirty words. It's a kind of a strong, rank feeling, a feeling of knowing everything and fearing nothing, and it's all bound up with breaking rules and killing things.

I understood HOW: I do not understand WHY.